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Low mood and hard feelings

Feelings are information before they are problems. The practices here are about naming what you feel accurately, sitting with what will not move yet, and acting on what matters to you even on the days nothing feels like anything.

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Theme · Letting it out safely

When everything feels flat 9 Tolerate distress 8 Emotions as signals 5 Shame 5 Question the thought 4 Name what you feel 3 When you use something to cope 3 Calm the body 2 Working with anger 2 Ride the urge 2 Act on your values 1 Letting it out safely 1 When you go numb 1

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There is motion sitting inside the word emotion. Big feelings come out through the body, so if you cannot keep still while you are grieving, that is the feeling moving rather than something going wrong with you.

Think how strange it would be if someone heard they had come into a fortune and just said thank you and carried on with the morning. Joy gets up and…

A minuteLetting it out safelyGriefQur’an 12:84